An astronaut on board the International Space Station has photographed the aurora australis (southern lights) as seen from space. NASA believes this particular storm to have been caused by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun on May 24.

I'm about a month into my internship at DOXA and I can already say that it's been an invaluable experience for me. The reason I think it's important to intern while you're still in school is because it's hard, if not almost impossible, to really understand or prepare for the "real" world of design without experiencing that world first hand. I knew it was different than school before I started. Everyone knows that in theory, but actually grasping that reality and what comes along with it is something entirely different.

A Visual Design student who is signed up for my upcoming Typography course wrote to me and asked what he could read during the summer to get ready for the Fall semester class. It about knocked my serifs right off. Where was he hiding his apathy? How dare he, during the sacred summer months, think about preparing for entering a demanding and increasingly competitive career field by preparing early for a class?

A nice infographic design and tutorial at Smashing Magazine by Adit Gupta, a web designer from India. The proximity of information to illustration makes the layout easy to follow. Thanks for the tip @strebel